Whiteichthys

Whiteichthys; Temporal range: Tournaisian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	† Palaeonisciformes
Genus:	† Whiteichthys ; Moy-Thomas, 1942
Species:	†W. greenlandicus
Binomial name
	†Whiteichthys greenlandicus; Moy-Thomas, 1942

Last updated March 31, 2025

Whiteichthys is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived during the Tournaisian age of the Mississippian epoch in what is now Greenland.^[1]

It is named after Errol Ivor White.

Classification

Whiteichthys was variably classified in the families Palaeoniscidae, Canobiidae or Whiteichthyidae.^[2]

References

1 2 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2009-04-24.
↑ Schultze, Hans-Peter; Mickle, Kathryn E.; Poplin, Cecile; Hilton, Eric J.; Grande, Lance (2021). Handbook of Paleoichthyology, 8A. Actinopterygii I. Palaeoniscimorpha, Stem Neopterygii, Chondrostei. Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München. p. 299. ISBN 978-3-89937-272-4.

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[sepkoskidb-1] 1 2 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2009-04-24.

[2] Schultze, Hans-Peter; Mickle, Kathryn E.; Poplin, Cecile; Hilton, Eric J.; Grande, Lance (2021). Handbook of Paleoichthyology, 8A. Actinopterygii I. Palaeoniscimorpha, Stem Neopterygii, Chondrostei. Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München. p. 299. ISBN 978-3-89937-272-4.

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